Comment by sitkack
2 days ago
I skipped the article, went directly to the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05542
It is very readable. This measures absolute distance.
LIGO was its own thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO many people, big vacuum.
Two sites, one by Hanford the other in a swamp https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA
Thank you! I'll check it out.